Monday, November 23, 2015

Native American Records Now Digitized

Modern technology can be a mixed blessing. While a lot of it remains sumberged in the muddy waters of the baser instincts for much of humanity, it was originally designed to be a tool for greater and quicker access to information than was ever previously available.

Indeed, it allows greater access to information than ever before, and can be a great and convenient tool for unprecedented learning, breaking down previous barriers.

Here is a case in point:

I found this article recently, and thought that it was very cool news, allowing people with Native American ancestry to better and more accurately discover and/or keep their family records tracing back centuries, as well as documenting how much America's westward expansion devastated their people.